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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-30

WILLS Fnxp.-In Register Clagett's ONCE to-day
the Will OF Mary A. Roth. widow OF Andrew Roth
was filed. She directs that her insurance money
be used for her burial; that headstones be placed
on the graves OF her husband, son, and herself;
that SIS be paid Rev. Father I. j. Tewes and hei
reai estate, 4l9 street, be sold and One-fourth Of
the proceeds be paid her daughter, one-fourth Il
her son G. W., and one-half TO her son Jacob The
will OF the late Michael McAlliSter, UeQueathina
estate to his wife, was flled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-30

SToRE-KEEPKR AND GAUGER.-Wm. Strain has
been appointed store-keeper and gauger for Hills
boro, fourth district OF North Carolina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-30
PERSONAL

4 UTHORIZED
"A Detective Agency and Bureau of Information,
W. WILLIAMS Mansger,
dim Office. 926 St IL W.. Washington, d. C.
1USTH's OLD STAND Is The ONLY PLACE
- where hrsteass Second Hand Clothing can be sold
at respectable prices Address call GIG st. u w.
SCOT jal6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-30

MAINLAND PosfNAs1HRsLThomas Berry has
been appointed postmaster At Benedict. Charles
county, Nd, and Mrs Nancy Brewer ct Roth,
Wsshin1tOn County Nd.
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dio-sOt -- 18Th and sts.
I,oR RENT-NEw HOUSE, 90s /. sr W CON
- taintnx rooms. elegant house with Al modern
improvements Apply 10 w. C. JOHNSON, us l3th
81 h-s d2-lm
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DEFICIENCY AUTHORIZATION 10 81 AsKED-U
is stated upon good authority that the appropri-
alton to pay witness fees for the current year win
be exhausted by February, and the Department
of Justice will be compelled 10 ask Congress for
another deficiency appropriation.
The Press., 1887-11-03

tie month of the rift, and I do not believe two nanthers could have done better. The side If the mountain was th1ckIy covered with cedars vines, and rocks, ana pro Cress was made almost entirely by creep inc Once we drew ourselves up a cllr full twenty feet high by a grapevine hang- ing down, and again Wo made use or tree to seek higher elevation we had been going up for half an hour before we hora off to the right in the direction of the rift. We then lad to move far more eau tiously. and presume it was tL full hour from the time we left the valley before we law on our stomachs 100 feet above the camp fire and looked over. The men were directly beneath us, seated close to- pether. and were smoking as they counted the money.
 We had but one way to attack. Luckily for us it was straight descent. could have dropped coin fair upon the hat or the man beneath me. We were out upon A. rocky shelf. but there were loose stones of all sizes all about us. l selected one weighing about twenty-five pounds, the miner got one equally as large, and we carefully crept back to the edge with them. The fall of the smallest pebble would startle the men below, and we used as much caution As if our lives would pay the forfeit. After a bit we were ready. The men had not moved. For about a minute lost my nerve. It seemed horrible thing to do. Had l been alone I believe l would have re- tented. The miner seemed to read my thoughts, and he put his mouth to my ear and whispered:
 ''Remember how they shot the ranch man, and remember that they take our every shilling!
 We poised the stones on the edge or the cliff, and at a whispered "Now" from him we dropped them. heard them strike, and drew back. He peered over, and after A. moment recovered his balance and said:
 s'Now we can go downI Those chaps will never rob another coachP'
 It took us longer to go down than to come up, but we made the descent in safety, and walked around to and up the rift. The fire had nearly died out. We replenished it and then saw that both men were dead. It was horrible sight, and one do not care to describe. Cur rocks had fallen squarely down on their heads, and you can imagine the result. There was dry, airy cave but few feet away, and the gang had made the place 2 rendezvous for long time. We recov- cred every dollar our coach had been robbed of and more than as much again, which had been taken from others. The cave had big supply of firearms, blan- kets and provisions, and in a mail bag hanging on the wall were ten gold and silver watches. We got altogether six teen watches, five or six valuable pins and firearms worth at least $500. We not only secured the wealth, but we made an even divide and kept every dollar of it. An attempt was made in Stockton to com pei us to ''divvy' with several people who had been robbed, but it was a failure. As the tourist was out of ready cash we gave him $20O, but we would not even sell the lieutenant back his watch at any price. It was told all over the slope that our haul amounted to $25, ,OOO If it did we earned every dollar of it, besides wiping P out bad gang ard leaving the stage line clear for the next six months.-New YOrk Snn
The Press., 1887-11-03
uouse i'm a yolcano,s Crater.

Lcancaur, volcano on the eastern boundary line of the Chilian province of has been ascended by Don Jose Sante Tices. An inner road leads to the summit, and Peruvian 'tambos, " houses of q single room, with low stone bench, still remain upon it, The bottom of the crater is about q quarter of mile across, and has pond 400 feet across in it's center. Around this pond nro the re- mains of some thirty large stone houses, and a large quantity of fuel, which must have been carried there at least 400 years ago, but whether by the Peruviuns or by their enemies, the Calchagui Indians, caI,. not be known. Boston Budget.
The Press., 1887-11-03
Growth of Amateur Photography.

The rapid growth of amateur photogra- phy is forcibly indicated by the number and size of the amateur photographic sO- oieties. All the large and many Of sthe smaller cities have now one or more aSSo- citations of this sort. The Society of Amateur Photographers, of New York, organized four years ago, is now & large and prosperous organization, holG:"g an- nual exhibitions and awarding diplomas for the best examples of work in different fields. The society's influence Las had the effect of elevating the artistic standard not only of amateur photography, but of photographic art in general. At the semi monthly meetings the members discuss with frankness the experiments they have made, relate their mild viciSSitu0es de- scribe their blunders and the resultant discoveries. No one is ashamed that ho should have made mistakes. An amateur - who had no failures would be regarded as a sort of artistic snob. As an offset to this variety, where it exists, there is gen erally the humorous fellow whose plates always either 'tfog'' or "frill," whose prints freckle, and who, when he insists on "silvering' his own paper, gets little nitrate of silver on the end of his nose, where it promptly blushes brown on meet ing the sun, and can only be removed, if it must be removed at once, with pumice stone or sandpaper.
 The "Field day'' has become an insti- tuition with the amateur societies, and woe to the sensitive who getdn the path of one of these armed bodies! On these ex- cursions the member with the ''detective' usually has his best sport in practicing on the other members, who, at the mo- ment of 8 photographic crisis, are not al- ways so impressive as they themselves could wish.
 What flow of developer" after one of these country tours! Far into the night, perhaps, the trays are rocking and the lanterns dimly f1ickering; and in quar- ters, mayhap, that were hard to secure and duly transform. Countryside and seashore know the amateur photogra- pher, his practices and his needs. We cannot believe that the country boarding house, certainly not the well regulated hotel of the future, will neglect to incor- porate in its table of attractions, 'Im- proved Dark Room for Amateur Photog- raphers. .''-Alexander Black in The Gen. tury.
The Press., 1887-11-03
A Great Debt to Science.

The immense practical value of me- teorology has been strikingly shown at Calcutta. The director of the Bengal me- neurological department became aware of the existence of 8 terrible storm in the bay of Bengal five or six days before it reached the land, and gave timely danger signals to keep vessels from leaving the river at Calcutta. One steamer failed. to heed the warning. and foundered, witt q loss of about 900 lives. Among six or seven vessels kept safely in port were two steamers bound over the same course as the lost vessel, and with about an equal number of passengers, whose escape from death was undoubtedly due to the wis dom of the weather forecasters. SAW Traveller,
The Press., 1887-11-03
HOW Women ReRin to Drlnk.

Out of an examination of 204 inebriate women have found that 129 began their drinking by the use of beer, 87 by drink, ing whisky tas punch at first, usually), 20 began with wine, 8 with gin and II could not remember what beverage was first used. These young girls, mill and shop girls largely, began by going to some so called refreshment saloon with their friends, and the debutante usually began sugar and water, charged with carbonic acid gas and colored with burnt sugar.; beer soon followed, and soon riotinr, other kinds of intoxicants, recklessness and crime; and what was an innocent, foolish girl yesterday, is today branded criminal, and all for glass of beer.- Godey's Lady Book.
The Press., 1887-11-03
CHOPIN.

An, what celestial art! And can sweet thoughts become pure tone and
 float, All music, into the tranced mind and heart! Her hand scarce stirs the singing, wiry metal Hear from the wild rose fall each perfect petall And can we have, on earth, of heaven the wholel Heard thoughts - the soul of inexpressible
 thought Roses of sound, That strew melodious leaves upon the silent
 ground; And music that is music's very soul, Without one touch of earth Too tender, even, for sorrow; too bright for
 mirth. R. ". Glider.
The Press., 1887-11-03

Brooklyn's horse-c employees are to have reading and coffee-rooms opened for them at Ridgewood, where the three lines end. The plan is to counteract the influ- ence of the nine saloons in that neighbor- hood. Plain food will be provided, there will be facilities for smoking and recrea- tion, and if everything works well, buIld- ing will be erected for their. use containing besides the attractions mentioned hall for popular lectures.
The Press., 1887-11-03
STRAINED BY STUDY.

Mental vigor is equally dependent upon the harmonious relations of activity and repose, and ignorance of this most i'm portant fact is q defect in every modern system of education. The constant ten dency of the age is towards too rapid de- velopment of the mental powers and towards reaching the goal too soon. The powers of thought are often strained too tensely for their own good, study is made too continuous and too monotonQus; and refreshment for the wearied brain is too little studied or considered
 But how could it be otherwisei Teach CTS and leaders have never been taught to rest How, then can they teach othcrsl They arc constantly urged forward by tLe pressure of public opinion to perform, or attempt to perform, miracles. They arc expected to put so much into a child, no matter whether the child is capable of retaining it or not. Their positions often depend not on what they have taught the children or pupils under their charge, but upon how much of the curriculum they have gone through in given time-in short, they are expected to successfully manage the machinery of the Procrustcan bed, and make the pupils fit tho lessons, and not the lessons the pupils.
 The Roman philosophers maxim, fes- tina lente-hasten slowly-is too often overlooked in this rapid age of the world. We have not or think we have not, time to go slowly.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Press., 1887-11-03
A Distinguished CIerSyman's Testa-
 mOnY.

Rev. R. M. Pickens, President of the Methodist Protestant Church of South Carolina, writes from Greenville:
 "About four years ago was attacked with what the physicians pronounced neuralgia rheumatism, accompanied with erysipelas. My appetite failed me entirely, and had an intermitting pulse and very irregular pulsations of the heart. A ter rible pain soon came into my chest and shoulders, and became so helpless that could attend to no business at all. The pains were movable, and would sometimes pass from one part of my body to another. Finally the erysipelas broke out on my left hand and arm, and produced much swell- ing. l was for eighteen months afflicted in this way, and of course used 6 great many kinds of medicines, but nothing gave me relief Friends finally persuaded me to try Swift's Specific noticed decided improvement while taking the first bottle I continued it's use until 1 had taken about one dozen bottles, when found myself sound and well again, with no sign of dis ease left except stiffness in my hand, a result of the crysipelas. While taking the medicine l gained on an average two pounds of flesh per week. think s. s s. valuable medicine, and I frequently recommend it to my friends"
 Write to the SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,, Atlanta, Ga., for Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free to anyone"
The Press., 1887-11-03

Too much cannot be said in censure of the interruptions adulterations of food products. Many persons are made ill and wonder at the cause. Ask your grocer for the best lard made, that bearing the brand of Sperry and Barnes.
The Press., 1887-11-03
The Noted NoveIist.

Miss Braddon is tall and broad shoulder ed, but not stout, her constant horseback exercise keeping down any excess of tis- sue; she has pleasant features, light brown eyes, hair without much trace of gray, and dresses handsomely, sometimes wear ing very beautiful iamonds.-Kansas City Times.
The Press., 1887-11-03
LEARN TO REST.

But since toll is the destiny of the hu- man race, a destiny as memorable as fate itself, is it not the part of wisdom to seek to alleviate our condition by every means in our power? Though we are hemmed in by the iron walls of necessity, nothing prevents us from making our imprison- ment as endurable as possible, and to do this we must cultivate the capacity for re- pose. We must learn to rest as well as to toll. We must become impressed with the absolute necessity for cessation from labor and the urgent demand of mind and body for recuperation.
 Activity of any kind can reach it's most successful results only when it is alter mated by sufficient periods of rest, and the capacity for repose must be developed in every man if his best possibilities are ever to be realized. Modern science has suffl- ciently demonstrated this so far as merely physical culture is concerned. Not only is the imperative necessity for sleep uni versal1y acknowledged, but it is also con ceded by all students of human energy that at least one day in seven should be kept as a day of rest for the body, and this independent of any religious. considera- tions. Many and careful observations have been made on this question, and their result amounts to an actual demon stration that no man or set of men can work effectively more than siX-s -sevenths of the time, and that any attempt to run the human machine beyond this limit means it's destruction.
The Press., 1887-11-03

Wife-'What are some of the requirements necessary to make successful poker player, my dear ?"
 Husband (thoughtfully) - "Well, a man must be cool, calculating, crafty, deceitful, selfish, sly, and have a touch of meanness in his disposition"
 Wife (shocked) )-'T shouldn't think you would care to pay with such people,"
 Husband-"Oh, most always win"
The Press., 1887-11-03

DRUNKENNESS OR THE LIoUoR HABIT PosI- FINELY CURED BY ADMINISTERING DR. HAYNES GOLDEN SPECIFIC. It can be given in cup. of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it is absolutely harmless, and will affect a permanent and speedy cure whether the patient is a moderate drinker ol an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkardf have been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NEvEI FAILS. The system once impregnated with the Specific it becomes an utter impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist. For full par ticulars address GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co.,, 18E Race-st., Cincinnati, O,
The Press., 1887-11-03
''DIGNITY OF LABOR.

Another phrase about which folios have been written and on which the press, the pulpit and the stage have expended much eloquence, the dignity ot labor" is equally mischievous. Labor in itself pos sesses no quality of dignity. It is irk- some, disagreeable, sordid, mean and grinding. It extinguishes aspirations for higher things; it exhausts the capacity for enjoyment; it makes an abject slave of a free man. And yet we are told, ad nauseam, of the dignity of labor. Labor Is only a means to an end. It is q period of probation, to be followed at some time, as we all hope, by rest.
 There may be, and often is, much dig nifty, much elevation of character in the man or woman who labors; but this is not because of his or her labor, but in spite of it. A human soul will shine through any disguise, and true nobility of character will reveal itself under the most adverse l circumstances; but to say that one pos sessing those qualities has them multi piled or intensified by labor is to say that lovely landscape would be made more beautiful by being viewed through smoked glass, or that fair woman is more fair in rags and tatters than in silk or satin.
The Press., 1887-11-03

The po'itieian's up and doing.
 And working with will, The fisherman, his sport pursuing, Is lying still. .
The Press., 1887-11-03
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The undersigned having been re- stored to health by simple means, after suffering for several years with severe lung affection, and that dread disease Consumption, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To those who desire it, he will cheerfully send Gree of charge) & copy of the prescription used, which they all throat and lung Maladies. He hopes all sufferers will try his Remedy, as 1t is invaluable. Those desiring the prescription, which will cost them noth- ing, and may prove a blessing, will please address, REV. EDWARD A. WIL- SON, Williamsburg Kings County, New York. r,E
The Press., 1887-11-03
You May Remove

Those unsightly Blotches, Pimples, aud Sores by faithful and persistent use of Ayers Sarsaparilla, the best and most reliable Alterative and Blood-purifer ever discovered. **I was troubled, for long time, with humor, which appeared on my face in
 UGLY PIMPLES and blotches. Ayers Sarsaparilla cured me. - Charles II. Smith, North Crafts bury, Vt.
 Until recently" writes Alice K. Charles, of Bath, Me, "my face has been covered with pimples ever since was fifteen years old. I took four bottles of Ayers Sarsaparilla, and my skin became as fair as could be desired" Ayers Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr. J, c. Aver X Co, Lowell, Mass. Price s1; six bottles, e. Worth @ bottle.
The Press., 1887-11-03
EXCESS OF ENERGY.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STUNG BY
 THE GADFLY OF COMPETITION.

PrOverbiaI Philosophy That Is Partly to
 Blamc-LnbOr. in Itself, without I'Ig-
 nity-Learn to Rest-Efects of Over
 study-''Festina Lente."
 The vice of the Nineteenth century is excess of energy. While it is true that there are exceptional cases of those who, In familiar slang, are "born tired" the characteristic of the time is a pushing, driving, restless, uneasy habit of mind and body, a constant struggle to get on, to attain wealth, or fame or position, and all this too often with utter disregard of the means employed, and with n criminal carlessness of the wear and tear of the machine, mental and physical. We arc stung by the gadfly of competition, and goaded to renewed effort by ambition and the well meant but really pernicous ad- vice of those to whom our success in life is near and dear. To be content with our station in life is regarded as un-American and unpatriotic, and as every soldier in the French army is said to carry a mar shaps baton in his knapsack, so every American youth Is presumed to have enormous wealth or high political station within his reach and if he fails to strain every nerve to grasp it he is deemed what our Anglo-Saxon progenitors called mid dering"-a worthless, useless, ambition less fellow.
 Some of the cheap and tawdry Poor Richard Style of proverbial philosophy must bear its share Of the blame for this condition of affairs. The remark at- tributed to Daniel Webster that "thcre is always room at the top of the ladder" has probably been instrumental in turning out more poor and inefficient lawyers than all the law schools of the country. The poor, deluded disciples of Blackstone fatl to see that there is so much room because so few reach the top of the ladder, and that the top rounds are more often at- tained by u series of happy accidents than lby plodding industry, especially if the | plodder have industry and nothing else.
The Press., 1887-11-03

Let Me Show You what a saving have made during the last year by being my own doctor. Last year paid out $96. 25 for doc tors and their medicine; this year paid $5 for six bottles of Sulphur Bitters, and they have kept health in my whole family. They are the best and purest medicine ever made Charles King, 60 Temple-st., Boston, Mass
 Hundreds of persons who have used Ayers Hair Vigor attest its valve, as a stimulent and tonic, for preventing and curing badness, cleansing the scalp, and restoring the youth full color to faded and gray hair.
 Puck: Wife-''In the game of lawn tennis, my dear, what is the most difficult thing to l acquire Husband-E'The lawn"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-08

perience IN the management of prisons. and also
those who have given careful attention to the impress
made upon the character of the young and compare
lively innocent convict by the aggregate prison sys-
1Am testify to its hurtful influence and the almost
imposslbllity OF erecting reformation under such a
system,
The sending of young men to the pententiary for
slight oenses is objectionable for the further reason
that however good his conduct may have been while
prisoner yet, when discharged, he finds that the
world does not look kindly an xpeniten.iary con-
vct. notwithstanding the offense for which he was
convicted not grave 1t is with great diff
Guilty he obtains honorable employment and finds still
greater difficulty in gaining admission good society
The ignominy of the expeEtentiary convict follows
him like destroying angel wherever he go. 1t is
cruel to visit such terrible punishment for slight
offense. A punishment that ends only with death
and punishment that deprives the young and frst
offender from obtaining honorable employment and
the association of reputable persons is disgrace
Christian civilization, mockery of the admnistra-
ton of justice and sad commentary upon statesman
ship If the State not at this time burdened
with the expense of the construction of many new
buildings would earnestly recommend the establis
ment of institution to be called by some such
as an industrial school," for the confinement of
young convicts and of those guilty of their first Of
that they might have at least chance to return
the path of recttude and the favorable recognition
| of their fellow-men.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
| In speaking of the public printing, binding
and stationery, he said:
Under the law every Office and institution has beer
supplied at uniform price. which has been secured
through competition. after due public advertisement
Referring the public printing act OF 1885 the Law
does not explicitly provide whether the number of
ports named in the ast to be printed for the various
institutions is exclusive of the number to be bound il
the documentary journal. whether the numbe
authorized includes the sixteen hundred intended 70
| the documentary Journal. AS q matter of economy
on account of the limited appropriation, the burea
adopted the latter construction. The law should pro
vide specifically what reports the documentary Jour